UI Test Automation is notorious for stability issues. UI automation is almost synonymous with “Flaky Test”. This presentation discusses taking a proactive strategy towards test automation flakiness as opposed to a reactive approach where we look at failures and then decide the course of action.
When you move from a monolithic architecture towards a distributed microservices setup, it makes some things easier, but other things become harder. Software testing is one of those things that has a bit of both. Compared to a monolith, your tests probably have a lot more APIs they can access …
This presentation covers the theory behind mutation testing and how to use it, but most importantly it looks at what it is really for and how it can make your life easier. Mutation testing is a once obscure development technique that dates back to the 1970s. Faults (or mutations) are …
When visuals come under test automation, the outcome rarely justifies the cost. Visual tests tend to be too brittle, to difficult to maintain, and too slow to execute for quick iterative delivery cycles. However, recent improvements in cloud computing and browser capabilities make it possible to change the economics of …
This presentation shares the good and the bad experience in the journey of building a Test Automation framework for an AngularJS based application. You will learn, by a case study, what thought process we applied on the given context (product, team, skills, capabilities, long term vision) to come up with …
Chrome OS is currently shipping 60+ different Chromebook/boxes each running their own software. On the field, customers are getting a fresh system every 6 weeks. This would not be possible without a robust Continuous Integration System vetting check-ins from our 200+ developers.
